The most relevant contemporary issue in policing in 33 years will be technology. This can come in a variety of ways. In 33 years, some of these ways are what could be considered in their infancy currently such as social media. However, the future of social media really has no confines. The opportunities for policing in the social media forum are boundless. This will be the standard in the future for all police agencies. This will assist in combatting crime, reporting crime and making arrest. Some police departments are already pro active and currently implementing this strategy. Bulletins and teletypes such as AM messages through NCIC that are currently in use will become extinct and only be read about in the history books and seen in museums.
With the internet will also come all police departments using online reporting for the general public. This will mainly be used for misdemeanor
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Are the drones invading privacy of American citizens? “The current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence that confronts unreasonable searches allows for the free, unlimited, and warrantless monitoring of people while they travel on public thoroughfares. Although people have no expectation of privacy while traveling on public thoroughfares, new technology in the form of drones makes this monitoring easier and more cost-effective for law enforcement agencies than ever before. A fleet of drones can monitor, record, and track large groups of citizens' movements on public thoroughfares and intrude into the lives of Americans in a way that has never been possible. This type of intrusive monitoring threatens the constitutional guarantees of the Fourth Amendment” (Crofty, 2014 p. 220). Within the next generation, the debate over drones will have passed and it will be used to help patrol the streets and reduce the amount of officers needed to patrol on an hourly